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Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host Sean Carroll. Sometimes I like to

imagine that there are people 500 years from now who are archaeologists, historians, whatever they call them at this far future point,

who have developed the technology to decode these ancient recording technologies, these different ways of encoding audio data, and they're

sitting there listening to the Mindscape Podcast.

So for these reasons, for those people 500 years in the future, I do find it important to provide some context.

Because you and I, you the present listeners, and I know what the news stories are and so forth,

but maybe our future friends don't.

So hi future friends, and you might be interested to hear that as I am recording this in

November 2023, we are in the midst of a bit of change vis-à-vis the status of

artificial intelligence, AI. It's probably safe to say that we are in year two of the large language model revolution. That is to say these large

language models, L.L. M. which have been pursued for a while in AI circles have suddenly become much better.

Mostly if you hear the people talking about them, there's some tricks that they have

certainly gotten better at.

That's very important in terms of the programmers making these

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